Recognize fake support and phishing

About 7 minutesCheck before you actWallet 1.7.5.8· unpublished

Outcome: You can name the moves impostors use and the rule that defeats all of them.

Completion looks like: You can state the rule: nobody legitimate ever needs your recovery words.

If something goes wrong: Reading only.

All steps

Learn the standard moves
You are trying to
Recognize the script.
You should see
This page's examples.
You do
Read the phishing examples: fake support, urgent upgrades, 'validation' requests, look-alike extensions.
Before you continue, check
All of them end the same way: they want the words, a signature, or a screen share.
What can go wrong
Urgency is the tell. Real infrastructure problems are announced calmly, not delivered as urgent private messages.
Reversible?
Yes.
Hold the one rule
You are trying to
One sentence beats every script.
You should see
Certainty.
You do
Say it out loud: nobody legitimate ever needs my recovery words, my seed, my screen, or a 'test' signature.
Before you continue, check
You would refuse a support agent asking for any of those, regardless of urgency or authority.
What can go wrong
Every exception you allow becomes the scam that works on you.
Reversible?
Yes.

Something wrong on this page? Open a prefilled issue in the documentation repository. What travels: the page path, the release this site describes, and your own words. Nothing about your wallet, transactions, or this browser is included or stored by this site.

Page not helpful Stale screenshot Version mismatch Unsafe or unclear wording Broken journey